Globalization and Football

by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson

Book Overview

This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.

Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, economic, political and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412921279
• ISBN13: 9781412921275
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"